GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST: Tuned For Sweet Spot Gaming

We had a clear goal in mind when we designed our latest GeForce GTX GPU: enable gamers to experience the 'sweet spot' in visual quality at a great price. We defined this sweet spot as 1920x1080, the most popular screen resolution amongst today's gamers, with High in-game quality presets enabled. GeForce customers who are passionate about their games don't get any joy from dialing down settings to low or medium, but achieving maximum levels of quality in the latest games typically comes at a significant performance cost. That's why High graphics settings strike a nice balance, delivering much of the performance benefits of lower detail levels, with near-identical visual fidelity to a game's best settings.

The $109 GTX 650 gave gamers great Low-to-Medium quality performance at an unbeatable price, and the $129 GTX 650 Ti upped the ante with Medium-to-High graphics. What was missing was a GPU under $200 that could play most games at 1920x1080 with High settings.

Rounding out the list of changes is the addition of SLI, enabling gamers to add a second GTX 650 Ti BOOST GPU to their systems, doubling performance in optimized, SLI-ready games.

Specifications

GeForce GTX TITAN

GeForce GTX 680

GeForce GTX 670

GeForce GTX 660 Ti

GeForce GTX 660

GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST

GeForce GTX 650 Ti

GeForce GTX 650

Chip

GK110

GK104

GK104

GK104

GK106

GK106

GK106

GK107

CUDA Cores

2688

1536

1344

1344

960

768

768

384

Base Clock

837 MHz

1006 MHz

915 MHz

915 MHz

980 MHz

980 MHz

928 MHz

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

876 MHz

1058 MHz

980 MHz

980 MHz

1033 MHz

1033 MHz

N/A

N/A

Memory Configuration

6 GB

2 GB

2 GB

2 GB

2 GB

1-2 GB

1 GB

1 GB

Memory Speed

6.0 Gbps

6.0 Gbps

6.0 Gbps

6.0 Gbps

6.0 Gbps

6.0 Gbps

5.4 Gbps

5.0 Gbps

Memory Bandwidth

288 GB/s

192 GB/s

192 GB/s

144 GB/s

144 GB/s

144 GB/s

86.4 GB/s

80 GB/s

Power Connectors

1 x 6-pin1 x 8-pin

2 x 6-pin

2 x 6-pin

2 x 6-pin

6-pin

6-pin

6-pin

6-pin

Outputs

DL-DVI-I
DL-DVI-D
HDMI
DP

DL-DVI-I
DL-DVI-D
HDMI
DP

DL-DVI-I
DL-DVI-D
HDMI
DP

DL-DVI-I
DL-DVI-D
HDMI
DP

DL-DVI-I
DL-DVI-D
HDMI
DP

DL-DVI-I
DL-DVI-D
HDMI
DP

DL-DVI-I
DL-DVI-D
mini-HDMI

DL-DVI-I
DL-DVI-D
mini-HDMI

TDP

250 W

195 W

170 W

150 W

150 W

140 W

110 W

64 W

SLI Options

3-way

3-way

3-way

3-way

2-way

2-way

N/A

N/A

Price

$999

$499

$399

$299

$199

$149 (1GB)$169 (2GB)

$129

$109

Combined, these changes allow the GTX 650 Ti BOOST to hit 35-40 frames per second in today's most popular games, at minimum, using High quality settings at 1920x1080, the most popular PC gaming resolution:

On average, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST was 42% faster than the GeForce GTX 650 Ti in our tests.

Gamers upgrading from an older GPU will see a significant increase in both image quality and performance with the new GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST. Take the 9600 GT for example, the seventh most-popular GPU amongst Steam's millions of users. Now five years old, the 9600 GT is over six times slower than the GTX 650 Ti BOOST, which sports four times as much memory and twelve times the number of CUDA Cores, and can render the latest DirectX 11 effects and features.

In PlanetSide 2, an extremely popular, recently released, graphically intensive massively multiplayer online first-person shooter, the 9600 GT can barely cope, running at an unplayable 14 frames per second in our benchmark. The GTX 650 Ti fares better, but at 33 frames per second consistently smooth performance is not guaranteed in a game with 2,000 players fighting simultaneously on massive continents. The GTX 650 Ti BOOST, meanwhile, puts its extra memory bandwidth, memory, and clock speed to good use, hitting 45 frames per second, a result 36% faster than that seen on the standard GTX 650 Ti.

The reference design GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST measures 9.5" in length and features two dual-link DVI outputs, one HDMI output, and one DisplayPort connector, allowing gamers to output to four monitors simultaneously.

If you're looking for an affordable upgrade that gives you the maximum amount of features and a great level of performance in any title, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST ticks all the boxes. It runs the latest games at over 35 frames per second at 1920x1080, with High image quality settings enabled, costs less than $170, and the 2GB version enables maximum texture quality in all games, in addition to the use of mods in titles such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Its GPU Boost support, meanwhile, enables maximum performance in each and every game, and when you're not gaming its four display outputs allow for a productivity-enhancing four-screen setup.

Offering the ideal balance between price and performance, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST is the perfect card for the cost-conscious gamer.

For a limited time, select GeForce GTX 600 Series graphics cards are bundled with bonus in-game currency for use in PlanetSide 2, Hawken, and World of Tanks. Learn more about the bundle here, and see where to buy here.